Patrice Wymore, Actress and Errol Flynn's Widow, Dies
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She met the actor when both had roles in the 1950 film "Rocky Mountain." She also appeared in such features as "Tea for Two" and "Ocean's Eleven."
Patrice Wymore, an actress and the third and final wife of the swashbuckling star Errol Flynn, died Saturday in Portland, Jamaica, after a long illness, the Jamaica Observer newspaper reported.
She was believed to be 84, though some sources list her age as 87.
Wymore made her film debut in a singing role in Tea for Two (1950) opposite Doris Day and Gordon MacRae and then met Flynn, 17 years her senior, during the filming of Rocky Mountain (1950) in New Mexico.
They wed in Monaco in October 1950, lived on his yacht for years and then bought a 2,000-acre cattle ranch and coconut plantation in the foothills of the Blue Mountains near Port Antonio, currently home to the exclusive Errol Flynn Marina.
Flynn, the star of such classic 1930s action films as The Adventures of Robin Hood and Captain Blood, was plagued by health problems and an addiction to alcohol and drugs and died in October 1959 at age 50.
The couple's only child, daughter Arnella, died of an apparent drug overdose in 1998.
Wymore, a native of Miltonvale, Kan., toured with her family in vaudeville. She appeared on Broadway in the late 1940s in the musicals Hold It! and All for Love, and Warner Bros. signed her to a studio contract.
Wymore also was seen in the films I'll See You in My Dreams (1951), She's Working Her Way Through College (1952), The Big Trees (1952), She's Back on Broadway (1953), King's Rhapsody(1955), The Sad Horse (1959), Ocean's Eleven (1960) and Chamber of Horrors (1966).
She starred in installments of the anthology series The Errol Flynn Theater and also appeared on television in Cheyenne, 77 Sunset Strip, Perry Mason, the daytime soap Never Too Young, The Monkees and F Troop.
Patrice Wymore, an actress and the third and final wife of the swashbuckling star Errol Flynn, died Saturday in Portland, Jamaica, after a long illness, the Jamaica Observer newspaper reported.
She was believed to be 84, though some sources list her age as 87.
Wymore made her film debut in a singing role in Tea for Two (1950) opposite Doris Day and Gordon MacRae and then met Flynn, 17 years her senior, during the filming of Rocky Mountain (1950) in New Mexico.
They wed in Monaco in October 1950, lived on his yacht for years and then bought a 2,000-acre cattle ranch and coconut plantation in the foothills of the Blue Mountains near Port Antonio, currently home to the exclusive Errol Flynn Marina.
Flynn, the star of such classic 1930s action films as The Adventures of Robin Hood and Captain Blood, was plagued by health problems and an addiction to alcohol and drugs and died in October 1959 at age 50.
The couple's only child, daughter Arnella, died of an apparent drug overdose in 1998.
Wymore, a native of Miltonvale, Kan., toured with her family in vaudeville. She appeared on Broadway in the late 1940s in the musicals Hold It! and All for Love, and Warner Bros. signed her to a studio contract.
Wymore also was seen in the films I'll See You in My Dreams (1951), She's Working Her Way Through College (1952), The Big Trees (1952), She's Back on Broadway (1953), King's Rhapsody(1955), The Sad Horse (1959), Ocean's Eleven (1960) and Chamber of Horrors (1966).
She starred in installments of the anthology series The Errol Flynn Theater and also appeared on television in Cheyenne, 77 Sunset Strip, Perry Mason, the daytime soap Never Too Young, The Monkees and F Troop.
Filmography
Wymore with Kirk Douglas in The Big Trees
Film
Year Title Role Notes
1950 Tea for Two Beatrice Darcy Credited as Pat Wymore
Rocky Mountain Johanna
Carter
1951 I'll See You
in My Dreams Gloria Knight
Starlift Herself Credited as Pat Wymore
1952 The Big Trees
Daisy Fisher / Dora Figg
She's Working Her Way Through College 'Poison' Ivy Williams
1953 The Man
Behind the Gun Lora Roberts
She's Back on Broadway Karen
Keene
1955 King's
Rhapsody Princess Cristiane
1959 The Sad Horse
Leslie MacDonald
1960 Ocean's 11 Adele Ekstrom
1966 Chamber of
Horrors Vivian
Television
Year Title Role Notes
1953 Lux Video
Theatre 1
episode
1957 The Errol
Flynn Theatre Various 5 episodes
1958 Jefferson
Drum Goldie 1 episode
1960 The Roaring
20's Maxine
"Bunny" Mallory 1
episode
The Deputy Lucy
Ballance 1 episode
1961 Cheyenne Harriet Miller 1 episode
Tales of Wells Fargo Pearl
Harvey 1 episode
77 Sunset Strip Barbara
Wentworth 1 episode
1963–1965 Perry
Mason Various 3 episodes
1965 Never Too
Young Rhoda Unknown episodes
1965–1967 F
Troop Various 2 episodes
1966 Mister
Roberts 1 episode
1967 The Monkees Madame Quagmyer 1 episode
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